This is not the date I wanted.

"...Shidou."

She spoke with a sweet breath, pushed aside her hair that was blocking her vision, looked at Shidao with charming eyes, and slowly lowered her head.

Just like Meng Yue said, she was a male in her previous life, so she knew better than the pure and innocent Tohka and Shiono how to make a man's heart move.

Although Shidao didn't drink any alcohol, he felt a little tipsy.

--wrong!

I quickly bit the tip of my tongue to keep myself conscious.

Very strange, Meng Yue is definitely very strange now! Although Meng Yue usually likes to play pranks, she is very considerate of others in her heart. Although her actions seem a bit unreasonable, she will still take other people's feelings into consideration and act accordingly.

However, the moment his eyes met Mengyue's, Shidao noticed that Mengyue's eyes were completely filled with impulse.

If this continues, Mengyue will definitely regret it later.

Shidao gritted his teeth. Since his limbs had been fixed by Mengyue at this time, he could only raise his head and give Mengyue a hard headbutt.

……

"Have you calmed down?"

After Shidou adjusted his clothes, he touched his red forehead with one hand and asked while sitting on a chair.

"Um..." Meng Yue, who had also tidied up her clothes, nodded and knelt on the ground as if to express her apology.

After confirming that Mengyue had really calmed down, Shidao finally breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, if it happened again, Shidao really didn't have the confidence to resist the temptation.

"Tohka, Yoshino, Yui, Yakuya, and you. What happened tonight? Everyone looks abnormal."

"Well... how should I put it? I was just possessed by a ghost..."

Mengyue scratched her cheek a little embarrassedly, and was tempted by the winning prize of "one day's share of Shiori's property" to the point of losing herself. As a result, she accidentally followed the shameful order on Kotori's card: "Be a stimulating teacher's temptation, teach health and physical education step by step, and let Shidao understand the joy of being a man." to awaken Shidao's male instinct.

How could Mengyue have the nerve to say such things in front of Shidao!

"Is there something troubling you? Talk to me or Kotori and the others, and we will help you."

(The person who inspired this is your stepsister, Kotori-chan...)

Meng Yue thought with a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth.

"Well... we were just playing games in the room, but due to this and that, it turned out to be like this."

"Um... Mengyue, can you explain the 'this and that~' part more clearly?"

Shidou covered his face with his hands and said helplessly, "Meng Yue's explanation cannot be used as an explanation at all."

"Well... Although Shidou has the right to know since he is involved. But considering that I can't say anything without Tohka and the others' consent."

"why?"

"...People have some secrets that they don't want others to know, especially for the more important people." Meng Yue shrugged helplessly, "Actually, it doesn't matter if Shidao wants to know, but if you chase him afterwards, at least there will be a backflow of spirit power from the elves. Do you want to hear this?"

At the very least, Kotori would definitely collapse.

"Uh. Let's just forget it!"

After hearing this, Shidao honestly gave up the idea of ​​asking further questions.

"Don't worry. In exchange, I will find a way to solve this problem." Meng Yue comforted Shidao while patting his shoulder with a wry smile.

"Well... please." After hesitating for a moment, Shidou finally agreed and nodded.

"OK! For this reason, I would like to ask Shidao, did anything strange happen after I finished bathing and left the hot spring?"

"Um... by the way, I was just about to ask you that."

After thinking for a while, Shidou seemed to have thought of something, ran to his bed, and took something out from under his pillow.

——A set of pure white women's underwear.

Meng Yue's eyes showed a light of incomparable joy.

"Shidou, have you finally decided to awaken and become Shiori?!"

"No! I don't need this kind of thing!"

Shidou threw his underwear to Mengyue with a blushing face and strongly denied it.

"cut!"

Meng Yue smacked her lips in dissatisfaction.

"Don't smack your lips!" Shidou complained, then took a deep breath and calmed down and said, "I found this in my undressing rack after taking a shower. I was wondering if it was your clothes?"

"How is that possible? If it was mine, you wouldn't have had panties to wear. Of course this is origami..."

Halfway through her speech, Meng Yue's voice suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong? Why did you mention Origami's name?"

"...Shidou, after I left, did Kotori come to invite you to dinner?"

"Hmm? I came here with Tohka, Yui, and Yakuya."

"Into the locker room?"

"Uh-huh!"

In response to Meng Yue's serious question, Shidao answered almost subconsciously.

"I see……"

At this moment, all the clues connected in Mengyue's mind. As she continued to think, the truth of the facts gradually became clear in Mengyue's mind.

"Hmm... I have a general idea of ​​what's going on. Don't worry, Shidao. I'm sure this matter can be solved perfectly."

“Oh, oh… come on!”

Meng Yue slowly stood up from the ground, brushed off the dust on her legs, and walked out the door.

"correct!"

Before leaving, Mengyue suddenly stopped, turned around, and glared at Shidao with a red face.

"Let's just pretend that what happened just now never happened. Got it?"

"Uh-huh!"

……

"How, how is Mengyue?"

"Well... I did what the card said, but I failed."

She gently touched the slightly red forehead under her bangs, and the slight pain made Mengyue smile bitterly.

"How could this be!" Kotori seemed to have suffered an unprecedented huge blow, and she fell to her knees on the ground in despair.

Could it be that my brother is really not interested in girls at all...

"but……"

At this moment, Mengyue changed the subject, squatted down, and quietly showed a corner of the things in her pocket so that Qinli could see it.

"This, this is!"

Kotori's eyes widened and she exclaimed.

Even if it was just a small part, she could recognize it as the women's underwear she found in Shidou's clothes basket in the men's locker room.

"Well... Shidou said he didn't need these things, so he left them to me."

He was moved by Meng Yue's temptation → regained his male instinct → gave up the pursuit of female identity → threw away his underwear → Kotori's normal brother returned.

In the midst of infinite despair, a ray of hope illuminates Qinli's world.

"Thank you...really...thank you so much...Oune-chan!"

As if suppressing the joy in her heart, two lines of tears of joy fell on Kotori's face.

"Um...you're welcome."

Meng Yue was actually sweating coldly because of the heavy gratitude.

"What, Meng Yue won?"

"Damn it, you win again this time, Mengyue. I will definitely not lose next time."

"Wow. Congratulations to Mengyue for the victory."

"Meng Yue-san... so amazing..."

"Yo~ As expected of Meng Yue-chan, you are really good~"

"Haha...thank you..."

Why...even though I won the championship, I can't feel happy.

"Kotori, how are you, have you calmed down?"

"Ah... I'm sorry... Lingyin, I let you see me lose my composure like this... I'm okay now."

"Oh...it's alright..."

Mengyue and Lingyin looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

"Kotori, I have something to tell you."

"That's right, Kotori-chan, let's put it another way."

"Oh, I have no problem with that... What's the topic?"

"I'll talk slowly when we get there..."

Kotori was led out of the room by the two men with a confused look on her face.

Twenty minutes later...

"Mengyue, Kotori-chan seems to be listless again."

Tohka looked at Gokawa Kotori who came back with a gloomy face and buried herself in the sheets, and said a little worriedly.

"…Ignore her. She needs to be alone at this moment."

Mengyue patted Tohka's shoulder with a serious look on his face, then took out a spade J from Yakuya's hand, whose face had a tense expression, and threw the remaining heart J in his hand onto the table.

09 The End of the Journey

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Today is the second night of our seaside trip.

At this time, everyone gathered on the beach by the sea, wearing kimonos and playing with the small fireworks that Lingyin bought from the store.

"Look, Xixian will take over the sacred Kagura dance of the Hurricane Miko from me."

Yajuya held a firework between each of her ten fingers. Colorful fireworks bloomed in her hands, and Yajuya danced her arms excitedly.

"I admire it. As expected of Yakuya's Kagura dance (laughs), it's quite charming."

“What are you laughing at! You are my half, and also a priestess of the hurricane. You should dance with me!”

Seeing Xixian lighting a firework and laughing not far away, Yajuya picked up the firework in his hand and pointed it at Xixian, puffing out his cheeks and complaining.

"No, Xixian is not a child. She won't do something childish like waving fireworks."

"What are you talking about? You mean I'm like a child... It seems I need to teach my half-body a lesson~"

After being stimulated by Xixian's stroke, Yakushi's face turned red with shame and anger, but as the saying goes, "Everything has its limits", he revealed a smile.

"No. Xixian sensed danger and ran away~"

"Don't run!"

"Really? Don't run too far!"

Shidao thought helplessly that he didn't know whether the departing Yamai sisters noticed his reminder.

"…It's Shidou…-san."

Suddenly, he felt his clothes being tugged at, and when he looked down, he saw Yoshino holding a firework and looking at him helplessly.

"What's wrong? Yoshino?"